My kids are friends with a young lady who is some sort of tic toc influencer. She has a huge following and decided to write a young adult fantasy novel.
She self published as a print on demand book. My daughter is an editorial assistant for a publisher and proofread it as a freelance.
She told me had she known how well it would sell, she would have charged a whole lot more.
The book has done very well and the author now has a contract with a publisher for follow up books.
Nice success story for a 21 year old kid.
One thing my daughter told me is that authors need a strong social media presence to even get looked at by publishers. That certainly helped her friend.
This is very true. When Callisto approached me to write for them, it was due not so much “social media” as it was due to SEO on my social media channels. That is exactly what the author recruiter told me when I asked how did you find me?
I credit two of my social media coaches at the time for getting discovered. If you use social media make sure it is search engine optimized to your target avatar/audience.
I was building my Instagram account at the time and was posting 300-500 words a day in my niche. Optimized!!